I'd like to believe that but the image merchants have ruined her hair several times and some of her footwear has been so bad that it reminded me of the dark days of the 1970s. Shouldn't grumble though, we superannuated 1970s egalitarians can see through the bumflufferies to the real woman underneath. ;O)
the soft and fluffy growth of hair on the chin of an adolescent and by extension, trivial, fatuous, not serious.
"You're on two per cent, two and a half, maybe even three. Depends on the usual bumflufferies. It's not about the money with you and me is it, Gal? It's the charge, it's the bolt, it's the buzz, it's the sheer fuck off-ness of it all." (Sexy Beast)
There will be many a neocon and deep stater who now wish they HADN'T fixed the 2020 election, because they spent 4 years after that harassing, deriding, even shooting at DJT, to prevent his return.
It was a 4 year Hollywood training montage, where *everything* they did made him that bit stronger, more resolute and more aware of their dirty tricks catalogue.
After Act 1, where the hero initially shines, but is defeated by dirty tricks, we had Act 2, where the evil guys ruled, but our hero endured and gathered his resources and friends, performed his training montage.
As Simplicius was saying, it's a clown show. I'm glad Zelensky showed up in his method actor Che Guervera costume, acting like a borish entitled beggar. He's their mascot.
It was inevitable that a sane person would not be able to stand it anymore, blow up and say out loud that he is a joke. Macron, Starmer, Kallas, Ursula, Trudeau, etc.. all of them, are freaking ridiculous, and to be scorned and laughed at.
Yes, we see you pretending that you are important and prestigious. No, we don't believe that you are. These people need to be made fun of, out loud, and often.
we were glad last year we finally got rid of Rutte as prime minister (3 periods, 12 years, ugh) and his 'promotion' to NATO chief is quite incomprehensible. unless NATO only wants to be an administrative entity...?
For 14 years we had to endure Mark Rutte. Is very good at debating, has great dossier knowledge and as a negotiator, but has absolutely no vision. Numerous times that his memory left him during those years, that he had no recollection. A disgrace in the way he handled MH17, already the Russophobia was clearly visible. He, as a history teacher, also blamed the Russians for the BUK missiles killing 2 people in Poland as Russia has started this brutal and unprovoked was of aggression (sick). In his role of secretary general he even pushed up his warmonger anti-Russia rhetoric. It is pathetic to listen too (I have to force myself). The other day he was blaming the Russians for incidents happening at factories in Europe, dead of several people and the threat of Russia. Of course no evidence is ever supplied. And let's assume for a moment the Russian's have a hand, so Putin (always Putin) kills a couple of people, so he is bad. We kill tens of thousands and we are the good guys?
It's like a plane crash: everybody turns their head towards the plane crash and the number of people died in the crash, but nobody looks at the number of casualties in traffic.
Note: since 1971 around 150000 people died in plane crashes while around 75 million died in a car accident (currently 1.3million per year globally)
That the gherkins and pricks feign confidence and competence is obvious: they are Potemkin leaders.
However, "Collective Biden" has not gone away and I wonder what messages are being exchanged between that side in the US Civil War and these fucking European ghouls and avatars passing themselves off as leaders.
What do you think? I fear much violent flailing about, black ops, false flags and even attempts on DJT and his administration as it becomes more obvious these avatars for ancient, embedded UK and European layers of power and rule are fucked.
Will they take us all down or fuck off somewhere nice with their stolen loot and leave us all to rot?
These straussians are set on exploiting Americans and US resources to achieve full spectrum talmudic dominance. The ongoing Ukrainian tragedy is a fruit of zionists rabid hatred of Slavs. The Nuland-Kagan putsch in 2014 was run in a direct and tight collaboration with the Ukrainian Nazi Party Svoboda.
The shameless jewish tribe keeps its whining museums open as a reminder of jewish lack of honor and jewish shamelessness.
You forgot “a few stolen sex slaves” they’ll need in the bunkers, though. And various meds, vintage wines, etc. As Nuland, their very own Cruella said: “F*** the EU”
Most likely the former, although the latter is still plausible. Regardless the average pleb in Europe will get binned, although those who were against all of this can at least give a middle finger to those who refused too and seduced into the hysteria and bloodlust of it all.
I can see the bankers wanting to take out DJT and his merry band of servants. But then maybe not. Isreal still has leash around his neck for now, unless Trump bins isreal altogether which i doubt very much at all.
No i think more attempts on him and his followers will be the go to, rather than fleeing. These people make feral ghouls in fallout look sane, well-adjusted, educated individuals, just a bit on the skinny side.
Hopefully they fuck off to some awful dimension akin to the nether, hell, lake of fire, Dark underworld, 9 circles of hell, Tartarus, Kuzimu, The hells of the forgotten realm, the deadlights, the void, the abyss, liminal spaces (None of the good ones either).
It's a photo of a family that has been artificially constructed, a family which truly is mentally ill and rotten to the core.
These people dislike and mistrust each other intensely, but somehow they are able to conjure up a convincing but false image of harmony.
The recipe for the watery glue that can barely bind this bunch of power hungry usurpers together, comprises of a number of ingredients, among which are: Globalist ideology, Russophobia, European "superiority" and European "global relevance".
These are all then slowly stirred and cooked with the addition of massively inflated personal ego's.
However! Soon after Trump pulls the plug on NATO, the paper- thin veneer of European "civility" will quickly melt away, only to reveal rabid in-fighting.
Institutional rot, in combination with a desperate need for self-preservation, will cause the rats to turn on each other.
Over-night dissolution of EU unity will occur, and in turn, initiate collapse from within.
Most of Europe outside the big cities is fine and the people are still sane. There's far more resistance than you Yanks think. We're definitely in for tough times and will probably be the big loser out of this fiasco (apart from Ukraine itself). However, it will be the end of the EU and hopefully Nato too.
I normally like cheetos but the male anatomy size talk, is that a guy thing? As a mature female, this is not an issue. Ever. Only one thing matters to women, kind gentlemen, it's about its durable strength. 🤣
he he, my so-called 'maturity' was not in charge of my internal, pesky TroubleMaker! I'm considering a delete, out of respect for cheetos, but he hasn't made comment so I might just let it ride. What say you?
". . . is that a guy thing?" From years of gym changing rooms, prison shower rooms (in my younger days), I've found it's usually a 'lying' guy thing. Mostly exaggerating. I've always found that it's only one part of the whole There's other parts that work (including the brain). Now I didn't start this - blame the SpringCheetos guy . . . . . didn't realise they were seasonal . . .thought Cheetos were year round Toxic Waste disguised as food. ;-)
he meant no harm and often a delightful commenter. I confessed to allowing my internal troublemaker to control my words. yes, cheetos, I believe they are the factory-made orange toxic waste pieces for which americans have convinced themselves are actually food. 😉
Didn't see your 'reply' Soujourner, hence my tardy comeback . . . . pls forgive me
There is an AWFUL lot of 'Toxic Waste' that your average American (in fact your average Wa$terner™, particularly the younger ones) views as food. I think Bobby Kennedy has his work cut out for him. That said, there's beginning to be a growing awareness of just how bad things are & that alternatives are available.
I can certainly freely type that much that quickly after reading Simp's article; in fact I think the length of my reply was double his, if not nearly triple and I think Cheetos posted like 5 minutes before I did.
Comment ambushing, where users piggyback on bigger accounts, has become an annoying practice. Aside from the usual suspects who are everywhere, newcomers are joining in, polluting the forums with their need to be heard while screaming on the shoulders of these established accounts. I’ve started avoiding comments because of this nonsense.
Cry me a river? Oh, spare me your crocodile tears, fallen genius.
Gestapo? Did your paranoia concoct a Peilempfänger that is trying to catch your noble ‘buzz-click-whirr’ as you’re desperately seeking attention in comment sections? I’m not policing anyone—I’m just sick of wading through the sewage of attention-starved nobodies hijacking threads with their whining.
Gestapo? Nice try, but you’re the one goose-stepping around with that brain-dead hyperbole. If pointing out a plague of comment leeches sounds like Gestapo, then you’re the poster boy for the whining freeloaders I’m dodging.
There is a very good, independent Italian political commentator by the name of Laura Ruggieri (publishes on many "alt" websites), who refers to these hapless Eurocrats as "EUnuchs." This fits very nicely with your own metaphors and is even more absolute.
If UK's Stomer was smart it would generate an AI video showing Putin burning a Koran. Then it could recruit all of the illegal Muslims in the UK and send them off to fight for Ukraine. But Stormer ain't too bright, is it?
Not that it would even work anyway since Putin's support for a genuine multireligious society (not the reverse-colonized hellhole that is the UK) has been slathered over the media to try and smear him.
I was totally apolitical before this war, I didn't even pay attention then, I checked this nonsense only recently. They don't ever deviate from the jerk the public protocols - incubators, churned babies, babies raped with teaspoons - who cares if Denisova got fired for her lies, since even Italian MSM couldn't stomach such garbage, the catchy timelines stick in memory, even if there was nothing underneath...
IIRC, what sank Denisova was when various western NGOs and do-gooders heard of the horrific crimes perpetrated by the evil Russian barbarians and wanted to help the poor dears. Turned out that Denisova couldn't produce any victims, so she had to go.
Doesn't matter. Plenty of people recite the litanies of alleged atrocities all the same.
You'd be amazed how many people still think that Iraq was on the verge of developing The Bomb, Saddam's top weapons scientist defected and told us everything....(look up "Curveball", if you don't already know the story).
For that matter, look up Lord Posonby's Ten Rules of Wartime Propaganda. Humans are infinitely gullible.
I think at this day/age, one needs to make an effort to be that gullible. My state is forever Democrats, but their was a young Rep candidate to replace a Senator who was in DC for nearly 30 yrs. This young rep's hubby was in Iraq, and a wretched suicide bomber detonated his bomb, and he lost his eyesight forever. DoD tried to write him off, still a young man, so she fought for him to get a trainer/teacher job. Sounded ok. But she just went with the drill - "my husband defended democracy in Iraq" - She lost, and I wondered what could happened if she just told the truth; her husband was sent to Iraq, where he shouldn't be & when he lost his eyesight there, DoD tried to write him off, and she fought for him not to perish into nothingness, and just as hard she would fight for the people of her state."
Europe, or the EU, will leverage this to float Euro-bonds and launch a pan-European army. This is the first European empire in 1,000 years, ruling over 23 countries. It has little to do with Russia or Ukraine, which the do not care about. But rather launching the E.U. As a civilization-state to compete with USA, Russia, and China. 800 million people, one government. Yes, chaotic, ineffective, illegitimate- but they will cancel, censure, propagandize, arrest, imprison, and even kill to take this step. And if a few thousand multi-European troops have to die under Russian artillery to justify “Russia bad” and “defending democracy” the union of Europe and subjugation of 23 nations will justify it.
You make a great point that building a European Empire is probably on their minds. But I have strong doubts they'll pull it off.
First off, who will buy the debt they need to finance this mighty empire? The US Treasury is selling their 10 year Treasury notes at 4.625% and maturing bonds are currently yielding less than that. People are selling their Treasuries because no one wants bonds when inflation is rampant. So at what rate would Europe have to offer its own bonds in order to attract customers? A rate that is unsustainable, dragging Europe further into the hole. That doesn't mean they won't try it though.
The Euro is the #2 World Reserve Currency with a flat +/- 20% share over the last decade. The USD share has gradually declined, from 65.5% to 57.4%, with modest gains by China, Japan, Australia and Canada.
If the US seriously wants manufacturing to return home it will encourage other countries to take on more of the World Reserve Currency role. Industry will not return without a basket of incentives, including a weaker dollar.
We will have to wait to see how the contradictory strategies announced by the Trump Admin play out.
Your timing is off. The EU attempted this already and is now on the way out, desperately grasping for anything to hold on to in order to slow or stop the inevitable.
They missed their chance - if they ever had one to start.
The EU is a creation of the CIA. Here is what the biased and fact-hiding AI has to say:
The claim that the CIA "created" the European Union (EU) is an oversimplification of historical events. While the United States, including its intelligence agencies, played a role in supporting European integration during the post-World War II period, this involvement was part of broader geopolitical strategies rather than direct creation or control of the EU.
### Key Points:
1. **U.S. Support for European Integration**:
- In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the U.S. actively supported European integration to stabilize the region economically and politically after World War II and to counter Soviet influence during the Cold War[1][2][3].
- The American Committee for a United Europe (ACUE), chaired by former OSS head William J. Donovan, was a key organization in promoting European federalism. Declassified documents reveal that ACUE provided significant funding to pro-European movements, including 53.5% of the European Movement's funds in 1958[2][3].
2. **CIA Involvement**:
- The CIA, through ACUE and other channels, worked covertly to support initiatives like the creation of a European Parliament and other integration efforts[2][3]. This was seen as a way to ensure a strong, united Western Europe aligned with U.S. interests.
3. **Role of European Leaders**:
- European leaders like Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman were instrumental in founding what would become the EU, starting with institutions like the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951. While Monnet had ties to U.S. officials and received support, he and other Europeans were driving forces behind integration efforts[4][6].
4. **Cold War Context**:
- U.S. involvement in European integration was primarily motivated by Cold War dynamics. A unified Europe was seen as a bulwark against Soviet expansion and a way to promote economic recovery under the Marshall Plan[5].
### Conclusion:
The CIA and other U.S. entities played a supportive role in fostering European unity but did not "create" the EU. The foundation of the EU was primarily driven by European leaders seeking peace and economic cooperation after World War II. U.S. actions were part of broader Cold War strategies rather than direct control over Europe's political future.
based and fact hiding indeed. There is no other logical explanation of the current extreme weak political establishment: it has been groomed by media and NGO's supported by the USA (through the CIA and other organizations). It has never been organic.
'It has never been organic' < this is the main point. although creating the horrific Euro seems to indicate there is some sort of union, there isn't and this will come more and more apparent. we liked our own currencies, we liked our own quaint city centers. both NATO and the manufactured EU will slowly but surely implode because it has no base.
A pan-European Empire with a stridently anti-European ethos, given its core tenet of replacing the native European populace with third-world immigrants as rapidly as possible? A perplexing combination indeed. It seems this so-called European Empire's concept of a 'European Empire' would be purely geographic, not ethnic, and would certainly not be an empire dedicated in preserving the continent's historic cultural achievements, given that actively holds so many of them, like its native populace, in contempt (indeed, the historic European legacy in question is already valued and preserved far more reverently by numerous nations outside the EU - nations this 'empire' would view as bitter enemies). Whether what you mention is a likely outcome in reality or not, I don't doubt many of the odious 'elites' pictured in the London summit in this article do dream of such a thing, inasmuch as it would given them a more direct platform from which to pursue their agenda.
Well put. And remember these are the very people that have taken over UK and European states and colonised them for the globalists. That is to say they have sold out their own countries and allowed the fabric of their cultures to be picked apart, insidiously, bit by bit.
The strongest suit they have is really clever advertising and public relations smart arses that now run mainstream media. Could they convince enough of their citizen's to fight for their gold? Their advantage in bullshit helps, but it is shallow when compared to the actual material circumstances their citizens can see in front of them. These ghouls think they can ask the very people who's lives and cultures they've ruined to go out and die for them. Can't resist posting this famous prose from Marat:
"Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because poverty’s hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you; and even if it seems that you never had so much; that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say there’s no equality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight; because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and their granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars who’s weapons’ rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can, with a flick of their fingers, tear a million of you to pieces."
Jean Paul Marat (1743 – 1793)
I pray a chance will come to get these rotten bastards and string them up from every available lamppost.
They are but, don't do much about it as individualism has been promoted to prevent larger groups to emerge in protest. Now most are afraid to expose themselves as they don't know if they will be backed-up or helped by others. The ones exposing themselves are easy target for the system and after they have given an example, even fewer people will stand up. Without income, a job, it will be very difficult to support the family in the way we are used to. Not a very attractive proposition.
This is the Game of Threats and it’s as old as the hills. Yes they can single out one or several people, or in some cases manufacture them. Hold them against the wall, beat them and make them bleed. “SEE?! See what happens when you disobey?!” The catch is that when people have very little to loose this leverage decreases drastically. So to the unelected technocrats I say this: go ahead and create a set of examples, but do be careful just how many become destitute as a result because before you know they could be on your very doorstep.
The hatred for the EU in the rural areas of Spain is approaching the threshold for "armed rebellion," or so I hear from my friends in Spain. Of course, this is a small sample size. Anyone in rural Spain care to confirm?
Where did he say that the people want to fight? On the contrary, he clearly said that this is essentially a group of unelected, rogue leaders who'll force what they want over the will of the people. Just add the word "draft" into this sentence that he wrote: "but they will cancel, censure, propagandize, arrest, imprison, and even kill to take this step."
The EU economy is in dire straits and in no position to sustain a military independent of the US. Look at the rapid deindustrialization of Germany, the strongest economy in the EU, for the evidence of this.
Nailed it in one. EU involvement in Ukraine had nothing to do with "saving democracy" but everything to do with creating at last the European Super state that the EU always intended itself to be. The problem was that all this could only work by piggybacking the US. Now Trump has so wisely pulled the rug from under the Euroweenies, they've been left high and dry. But like all good psychopaths, retreat is not an option. Instead they will double down and it will lead to the end of their megalomanic dreams. This is going to be fun to watch for anyone who hates the Deep State
You are witnessing the rise of the big gay fourth reich, which will eventually find itself in a civil war as the forces that seek to turn it into a caliphate attack it from within.
Unfortunately my ostensible leader who has already kind of, maybe, announced his resignation insists on giving my tax dollars to piano d#ck man while flying to Europe on my tax dollars.
>Certainly not for Americans who could no longer care less about Ukraine, or Europe for that matter.
Why are we so sure?
As far as we can tell, everything continues as before where it matters -- on the battlefield. It will be felt almost immediately if the US properly withdraws from the war, meaning ISR is shut down and the AFU is left high and dry.
Do we see that? No.
>Britain’s dead-eyed toad then proceeded to promise backing Ukraine’s sovereignty with ‘boots on the ground and planes in the air’:
Remember that Britain has good intelligence about the real situation and they would not be doing and saying these things simply on a whim. So far the consistent pattern has been that every escalation has been first publicly declared by the West, then actually carried out, and in the end the Kremlin has done nothing in response.
Which indicates that all such decisions are made with very careful consideration of the possible consequences and good knowledge of the real conditions.
Why would it be any different now? The Kremlin not only had all the reasons in the world, it was in fact mandatory to have smoked much of NATO in Europe a long time ago. If the people in charge in the Kremlin truly care about their country, of course. That it has still not happened can only mean:
1) The people in the Kremlin are traitors, and/or do not care about the country, and/or do not have the courage to defend it, and/or will sell it out at the first opportunity
2) NATO actually holds the military-technical upper hand.
Either way, past behavior and events being the best predictor of future actions and developments, the safe bet is on European NATO armies entering Ukraine and Putin not doing anything to stop it.
>In short: Europe is too terrified to go it alone and will not deploy troops unless it has American guarantees about backing them up should Russia turn their peace keepers into toasted compost.
Europe has now on many occasions shelled Russian cities with purely terrorist intentions, just to kill. Women and children primarily. Nothing happened to anyone responsible. That does not look like being terrified to me and/or not having US backing. And it does not speak well about the future potentialities.
>Russia, in the meantime, has requested direct flights between the US to be resumed:
Big mistake. The USSR was on the irreversible path to collapse the moment Khrushchev decided to go for friendship with the US. The corrosive influence started pouring into the country immediately, and we know what happened eventually. The North Koreans are the only ones who understood it after what happened in the early 1950s. The Russians suffered similarly, but almost immediately forgot the lesson.
>From Russia’s perspective, the only way it can trust the US again, to the point of actually ending the conflict at some point in the future, is if the US shows an unprecedented deal of good faith by ‘thawing’ relations, and normalizing at least the most practical of roadblocks between the two countries. It’s understandable that the big things like sanctions must stay on for now, for appearances sake, but the US will have to show Russia it’s capable of meeting it half-way after decades of betrayal. In that light, these things are a good start…but only a start.
Not remotely sufficient. The blood debt has to be repaid. How many dead Russian soldiers and civilians are we talking about (on both sides -- always remember that most Ukrainians are ethnic Russians too and this is a civil war engineered from the outside) and how much destruction?
Unless the Kremlin demands that those responsible be handed over to Russia for public torture and execution, the blood debt will remain, and the Kremlin will be guilty of high treason. And relationship can only be normalized with some degree of real trust if Trump actually does hand those people over. But we are talking thousands of high-ranking members of the Western elite, including the likes of Lindsey Graham in Trump's own party, so yeah, good luck with that.
Sorry, your post is full of nice sounding rhetoric with no factual basis in reality....need to stop absorbing the BS from the
mainstream propaganda media. Putin is in the drivers seat, on the battlefield and in the political arena. The EU acts as if they're still a power center and relevant. They're not. A leaked report stated that Britain as at most 24 functional tanks, about enough to last a week in the typical Ukrainian battlefield scenario. The EU needs the US backing to put boots on the ground and prolong the war. Won't happen. Please point out one campaign promise Trump has resigned on...not one. He and Putin will end this stupid proxy war, and the EU will whimper but comply.
>Putin is in the drivers seat, on the battlefield and in the political arena
Yes, you see, this is in fact the essence of the problem.
If Putin is indeed in the driver seat, and the Russian flag is not flying over Kiev, and Russian troops are not patrolling the Polish border, then what does that tell us?
I, for the record, fully agree with the notion that Putin has the capability to achieve those things rather quickly, but the empirical reality is that he hasn't and the Russian army is bogged down in a drone-imposed stalemate for three years.
So we have two options:
1) Internal politics dictates foreign policy, and in this case the Russian oligarchy does not want victory, so it is not being actively pursued.
2) In fact the assumption that Russia has the upper hand militarily is wrong.
FFS, you are like a broken record: "Putin is weak; he's not doing enough; blah, blah, blah..." While Putin has "not been doing anything," the US has started to drop out of this war (and out of NATO), and the EU and the remains of NATO are falling apart. Why would he launch a blitzkrieg and risk huge casualties when he can continue to grind Ukraine slowly and let his enemies just evaporate on their own? Russia has escalation dominance. It could nuke all of Ukraine, and the US would not do a thing about it because they will not trade New York for Kiev. But fortunately, Putin is not going to do that because he doesn't have to, and he doesn't have a clown like you advising him.
>Why would he launch a blitzkrieg and risk huge casualties when he can continue to grind Ukraine slowly and let his enemies just evaporate on their own
Because he can do a blitzkrieg with practically zero casualties if he used all the tools at his disposal while the grind is precisely what has killed over 100K Russian soldiers.
That is why.
> It could nuke all of Ukraine
We found yet another Westerner who does not understand anything about this war.
Russia will never nuke Ukraine because UKRAINE IS RUSSIA. That would be nuking your own people and land.
Who must be nuked is NATO in Europe. And here is the problem -- so far Western lives have been clearly much, much more valuable to the Kremlin than Russian lives....
I understand that a blitzkrieg will create more Russian casualties; I understand that attacking Europe will create more Russian casualties. Why would Russia do this when the current level of Russian casualties is acceptable? Perhaps not for the Russian soldier who gets killed, but that's how war works. This isn't a video game. And Russia has escalation dominance.
What you don't understand, or simply choose to ignore, is that the goals for the SMO were very clearly stated by Putin. They are demilitarization, denazification, and ensuring a neutral Ukraine. There was no timeline given to accomplish this. The Russians are achieving their goals and they are winning.
Not fast enough or violent enough for you? Too bad. I trust the military thinkers in the Kremlin far more than some anonymous clown continuously making crisis posts in the comment section of this blog.
>I understand that a blitzkrieg will create more Russian casualties; I understand that attacking Europe will create more Russian casualties. Why would Russia do this when the current level of Russian casualties is acceptable?
Every single thing said here is wrong.
First, the casualties are acceptable to you because you are in the West and they do not affect you in any way nor do you care about Russian people. It is a video game/sports contest for you. They are not in way acceptable otherwise
Second, attacking Europe will end the war immediately. Poland, Germany, etc. cease to exist in a couple hours, what do you think will be the reaction? The other NATO countries will attack Russia? Of course not, nobody ever again will dare fire a single bullet against Russia and all hostile actions cease immediately. Because nobody will risk the same happening to them.
The blitzkrieg will happen with few casualties if logistics are broken and Ukraine is cut off from the West. Or rather, it would have been before they were allowed the luxury of three years of accumulating drones and other weapons all over the country. Now it will be much more difficult indeed even if Ukraine is cut off. Still, it will be much easier than what we have now.
But Ukrainian logistics remains off limits for strikes. Why?
No, it is not because that is the smarter strategy, that is you rationalizing what would be immensely absurd military stupidity if it was sincerely thought as the correct way to proceed in order to not have to face the reality that Russian leadership is not acting in the best interests of Russia the country. The latter is too painful to digest, thus the desperate need for rationalizing it away.
>...the goals for the SMO were very clearly stated by Putin. They are demilitarization, denazification, and ensuring a neutral Ukraine.
And none of these goals has been achieved, nor can it be achieved even in principle without going to the Polish border and ending Ukrainian statehood altogether.
Which Putin has neither prepared Russia for no has he indicated he has any intention of doing.
Blitzkrieg is a specific term that applies to a military doctrine employed by the German army in the early years of WWII in which armored vehicles were assembled together into their own divisions (rather than dispersed as support weapons throughout the infantry corps). These armored, highly mobile divisions (complete with mechanized infantry) were then used to exploit a breakthrough in defensive positions that were not held properly in depth (ala France's Maginot line) and create large pockets of an enemy packed along a line (WWI style).
The doctrine of blitzkrieg proved flawed in the vast expanses of the eastern front. What worked in compact regions of France and the low countries or against an unprepared Poland did not work in Russia for Germany.
It is not so much "blitzkrieg" that Russia needs, because drones make large mechanized columns a liability (as Simplicius has observed time and again). They need to engage and stay engaged relentlessly in one or two sectors once defensive positions crumble, with reserves ready to move in and stay on the offensive, rather than shifting theaters after each incremental advance and each Festung that falls. The reluctance to stay engaged and press forward allows the Ukrainians to dig on time and again, which results in higher casualties assaulting fixed positions rather than hounding retreating troops in open fields all the way to the Dnieper.
Shock and Awe is not Russia's style. This is a war of attrition. They have done quite well eating up Ukrainian military and all the West's equipment and ammo.
If they wanted to go American style and carpet bomb, hell yeah, they could have done that easily. You need to remember "Oreshek". They don't even need nukes.
>If they wanted to go American style and carpet bomb
Yet another know-nothing who doesn't understand the situation.
Russia does not have the military-technical capability to carpet bomb in Ukraine. Nobody does, not even the US. Planes will be shot down immediately and nobody has that many missiles
Russia can only nuke.
The point is to do it on Poland and Romania (and Germany, Czechia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Norway, etc., if you want to extend the list) if you are going for total annihilation, so that nobody else dares be aggressive towards Russia again, or to use tactical nukes to completely break and blockade logistics inside Ukraine (with close to zero civilian casualties) so that you win the war.
P.S. Why would you even carpet bomb. What will that achieve?
you say shock and awe is not Russia's style? are you sure?
What's Oreshnik then? What's FAB 3000? What is the Sointsepyok ? I suspect they're as familiar with the concept as anyone else and the demonstration of Oreshnik was clearly a shock and awe demonstration and it worked I think?
The 'war of attrition' well may be but the point is was it a deliberate choice or the only option? It seems any objective view of the facts reveals Russia was ill prepared for this conflict but - as part of being ill prepared - didn't know that at the beginning.
They had corruption and inefficiency from top to bottom. Everywhere but we're talking simply the military here.
It is still being found out. I have strong doubts about the Kursk region for instance. I'd love to know what Prigozhin would say about it. I do know what Alaudinov used to say about it a year ago: all pure tosh as revealed now.
America envisaged a war of attrition on Russia is the point. They chose that. Russia has/had no choice but to go along with it.
We are still at that now. Any pause, any ceasefire, Russia knows, is just that: merely a pause... the long war of attrition will still continue.
It seems never to get said any more though a short while ago it was loudly said on all sides: the enemy is America. What ritualised dances re Ukraine and Russia American's implacable war will continue won't it?
Now we're all pretending 'america has washed its hands of the war' etc. Pretending that is 'was always UK'. Horseshit. It was and is america.
Why/how? Because America is merely a pseudonym for a bunch of oligarchs who may or may not be Jews, I don't know. But they are like, for instance, Blackrock, I think. And the money there is more than the GDP of a number of nations added up I recently read.
Those people, those forces, never let up on seeking opportunities for plunder. Never.
That's why Russia has to go war of attrition. It has to keep in reserve forces enough to meet sudden stabs in the back, it has to keep in reserve resources to meet the long war....
It has to employ its energies in other 'theatres' or 'levels' or whatever of this war: politics, economics, trade...
America never lets up. See it at this very moment manipulating elections throughout Europe. Russia has to be mindful and resourceful and prepared to meet and counter..
Ever heard of Bagration? August Storm? Lvov-Sandomierz? Uranus? The destruction of the Czech Spring? The Brusilov Offensive? The rescue of Ethiopia in 1977-78?
Actually, Putin is in the driver's seat and has been from the beginning. He has significantly drained US/UK/NATO resources, disrupted the EU economy, forced political instability, cracked open NATO unity, preserved Ukrainian civilian lives - all by a slow, deliberate war of attrition.
Not gained much territory? That's not the point of attrition. The point is to destroy the military capability of the enemy and incapacitate their will to continue fighting - territory comes later. And Putin has now erased virtually all obstacles to a huge territorial gain this year or next by maneuvering the US, UK and Europe into a situation in which the military capability of the West is severely impacted and political will among the population is declining - and now Putin can demonstrate to the world that whilst he has on multiple occasions pleaded for peace, all such efforts have failed - indeed, Europe now demands more war demonstrably in the face of intense efforts to bring peace - and so only one solution remains - taking all of Ukraine, which I believe Russia will end up doing. Trump, meanwhile, lives in a bubble of his own making - a complete misunderstanding of Russia's intent in this war and its complete dedication and fierce determination to accomplish its ends. He believes he can quickly buy Russia off in a huge business transaction and establish an American version of peace there - not on your life, as Russia considers this an existential struggle and will give no quarter in achieving its own survival.
Look for Russia to completely break the back of Ukraine in the coming months and at that point begin the drive to the Polish border all the while giving the impression that he was forced to do so by a war-mongering Europe.
None of this could have been accomplished by a Big Arrow War. That is simply not Russia's style.
You still haven't grasped the essential nature of the war or Putin's aims. Putin never mentioned seizing territory as a war aim. His target was to demilitarise Ukraine. A war of attrition achieves that because it grinds down the enemy forces. And who can argue that he hasn't succeeded? The Ukies have suffered close to a million casualties and will never again have the manpower to kill ethnic Russians in the Donbas.
>Putin never mentioned seizing territory as a war aim.
Which is the essence of the problem
>His target was to demilitarise Ukraine.
And how is that going to happen without annexing the whole of Ukraine?
>A war of attrition achieves that because it grinds down the enemy forces.
How many hundreds of thousands do you need to launch drones and missiles into Russia in perpetuity?
>And who can argue that he hasn't succeeded?
The daily realities on the front lines.
>The Ukies have suffered close to a million casualties and will never again have the manpower to kill ethnic Russians in the Donbas.
Most Ukrainians are ethnic Russians. According to Putin himself. He wrote a long article on that question that he published in mid-2021. He has been mostly slaughtering what he officially considers his own people. Amazing success...
Donnie promised mass deportations but so far he has deported less than the Biden administration. ICE has 7400 field agents and is only arresting about 500 per day. That is absolutely pathetic, kinda like Pam Sessions.
Brace yourself Americans in the comments will howl at you again, accusing you of treason, branding you some CIA funded running gloom and doom psyops to undermine the heroic triumph of Putin’s mythical 5D chess. it's practically an honored tradition on this blog now.
People write their wishfull thinking,fantasies Russia’s unstoppable ascendancy, America’s downfall at the hands of the righteous, some cosmic score settled through obscure victories over supposedly degenerate targets :) :) :) And then you arrive and show them reality than they curse you, curse you and curse you again.
Most ironic part of it is with months passing time is always proved you are right and they are wrong in fricking everything. I fear they are not real humans. Maybe they are bots or maybe they are raised in some basement or cave by their abuser without intterraction with any sane person
They’ll call you liar, traitor, warmonger, tool of foreign infiltration aka CIA. And They are doing this with unwavering conviction. What a nice irony!!!
Yet the cycle never breaks: fresh illusions (like Russia winning a great win against so called Gay/Trans/jew collective west ) spring forth, than you arrive and show reality, fresh curses are start to flung, than months passes and time show you are right and their wrong. and keep going. Goes on. This is really our sad tradition. stuck in a purgatory of wilful ignorance and bottomless spite.
I feel like this is real hell experiences. Forced to living with utterly ignorant and bad people. I don't think any hell fire cannot torture me anymore
I believe Russia will lose all its wars, not because of its enemies, and not even because of its own incompetence, but rather because of its so called friends. With friends like those, who needs enemies?
By the way, for at least the last six months, I’ve been reading Simplicius specifically for your comments. Thank you for writing. That wasn’t my original intention, but at some point, I realized that whenever there’s a new article, the first thing I do is search for your name
>I believe Russia will lose all its wars, not because of its enemies, and not even because of its own incompetence, but rather because of its so called friends. With friends like those, who needs enemies?
Well, here is the thing though -- why would anyone be loyal to Russia given what it has done to its sincerely loyal allies in recent decades?
Did people in Bulgaria, Romania, the GDR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland want to go capitalist? Maybe in the latter three, certainly not in the former three. Nobody asked them though, regime change and abandonment of socialism was ordered from Moscow and then duly carried out.
Did the Cubans and North Koreans want to starve in the 1990s? Of course not, but nobody asked them. Moscow cut them off abruptly, despite their decades-long strict loyalty.
What happened to Syria just a few months ago?
And many such stories in between.
The biggest one being the Kremlin's betrayals of Russia itself, which are too many to list.
I cannot agree more. Russia itself betrays its nation, its history, its sacrifices, and everything once sacred. I witnessed much of this betrayal with my own eyes. It is beyond tragic. I once received a job offer from Rostec (a Russian military company), but I refused. Because, why not? Getting three times bigger paychecks from the so-called gay/trans/homo Western world is a million times better and more honorable, I thought. The current Russian state is the pinnacle of shame. They sell their resources to other nations as cheaply as water. They sell their women in brothels in Turkey, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and the remaining parts of the world!!! And right now, Putin sells his soldiers—the best men of Russia—in the swamps of Ukraine to cheap $1,000 Chinese drones!!!!! Like a real African country. Like a real joke.
If Stalin or Strelkov were in power, I would go to war without hesitation, because I know my sacrifices wouldn’t go in vain and the enemies wouldn’t be happy. But the current Putin and oligarch state is horrible. One boy from my city joined the Russian army (he was a communist like me and thought serving in the Russian army would be a good way to repay the Soviet Union and its sacrifices), and in just one freaking month, he died from some stupid grenade dropped by some stupid drone. Now I empathize with him, thinking that if it were me who died, then American people would come here and comment their horribly low-intelligence fantasies about how Putin is destroying the so-called homo/trans/gay/Jew Western world. Even the thought gives me shivers
Right now, I’m so happy to finally be serving Western capitalists. It’s better to live and die in a life of luxury than to serve some not-real ideology (4th Political Column, Dugin, Eurasia, BRICS, Putin, etc.) as a poor peasant.
These people in the comments are beyond salvation. They blame you for following mainstream media. What audacity!!!! They have been brainwashed by mainstream media their entire lives, they have no unique or original ideas, they just believe whatever they were taught on TV and in schools, and then they come and blame you for following mainstream media? What the heck is that? Really, what is this?
Is this a joke? Is this a freaking joke?
Do you know what we can do about this sheer ignorance and these brainwashed people? Just serve Western capitalists and help extend the Western capitalist world’s hegemony more. Because these people definitely deserve it. They need natural selection. They are not the same humans as us, so to speak
It is obvious that if I disagree with you, you are already convinced that I am brainwashed turd deserving of being flushed down the toilet. So I won't bother. At least with GM he generally doesn't preface his comments with scathing pre-judgement of his audience - he gets right to his points and invites replies without personal insults.
Is this another joke? Do you know what sort of replies “GM” has been getting from people like you for an entire year or more? Generally, they call him one of two things. In the polite version, he’s a CIA asset, a funded troll, a fascist, a doomer, low intelligence, etc. In the worse version, they directly insult and swear at him. And you say I am rude? That I am cursing you? No, my friend, no. I’m only stating the truth about what we feel and how we live right now. I don’t care about you. Please, call me a CIA asset and a troll. Then tell me your fantasies about Russia’s victory over the so called globo/homo/gay/trans/Jew Western alliance! Please enlighten me and other doomers. we need your definitely non mainstream views
Do you know why you guys act this way? Because the people dying out there don’t matter to you. You have no real affinity for them beyond your imaginary fantasies. If those dying in the field were your own kin, your blood, your friends, your comrades, you wouldn’t be writing those fantasies in the first place. It’s unfair, and I’m tired of holding my tongue This is unfair
>One boy from my city joined the Russian army (he was a communist like me and thought serving in the Russian army would be a good way to repay the Soviet Union and its sacrifices), and in just one freaking month, he died from some stupid grenade dropped by some stupid drone.
Which is another tragedy of the current situation -- negative selecton.
It is this type of motivated volunteers dying in the trenches.
You disappoint me. There are many who appreciate you, GM, and others on this forum coming from the former Soviet Union and with such an excellent command of English. I'm one of them.
Many Western people loathe the reduction of complexity to "Four legs good, two legs bad" in George Orwell's words.
I understand you are sticking up for GM but what you are writing is childish and beneath you. Let's not all end up being 5 year olds in the playground because nobody will gain wisdom. I'm writing this to you because I normally read all your posts and still will. Perhaps you're having a bad day.
Yesterday, when I read your words, I felt shamefully like a child who had done something wrong. Do you know what happened later? I read in the newspaper that one of my drinking friends committed suicide by hanging.
At 22:00 yesterday, a life was lost. All night and throughout today, I kept thinking and thinking. And I realized—this was inevitable. I was weak. I couldn't even help myself, so how could I help others? Knowing me was just another misfortune for all my friends.
A child of Russia, born with Russian blood, died yesterday—hanging in some literal hellhole. And I knew it beforehand. I knew this was coming, yet I still couldn't do anything. Do you know why this happened? Because of Putin and his oligarch buddies. They are the ones responsible, first and foremost, for making this child live like that—and die like that. I cannot give details, but their blood is on Putin’s hands, at least in large part.
One of Russia’s children died yesterday. Alone. Without a choice. At 25 years old, there was no hope left. Everyone abandoned this child—even me. At least I have an excuse: I had no power to save them. But none of you helped either.
This message is not a lie, my friend. I wish it were. I wish this were just some pathetic attempt to get attention. But no. Yesterday, a child of Russia—raised with Russian books, carrying the weight of Russian history—died alone. Forced to die by disgusting people. And Putin let it happen.
But I must add something else—I truly believe this child was forced into suicide, maybe even murdered. Maybe strangled to death and staged to look like suicide. Maybe with a gun at their head, no way out. I don’t have the power to know exactly what happened. But I am certain of one thing—this was not just a simple suicide. This child was either forced or outright murdered. And there will be no justice. None at all.
I wish I could tell the whole story. But I can’t even say a name. Why? I can’t even leave a comment under that newspaper article, pretending I was truly a friend. No, no, no. That would be too dangerous.
This is my final message here. I will never think about politics, morality, ethics, God—none of it. I will just live my life with no empathy for anyone. This world is nothing but darkness.
By the way, let me leave you all one last gift as a farewell: You will never win. The sides you support will always lose. Why? Because you are weak—just like me. And the world demands the blood of the weak. This is evolution. This is why that child died yesterday—because natural selection does not forgive weakness.
You know, I had plans to save them. And others. I’m just a regular peasant, but I was willing to sacrifice my life. I was even planning to reach out to GM and that Rolo Slaviclands guy. I was going to trust them, tell them my plan—to save countless Russian people. Because even in weakness, we still have one thing: our lives to sacrifice, to take them by surprise, to make the oligarchs tremble.
But now I understand.
After crying so much today, I finally understand.
Not even the lovers who betrayed me, who cheated on me, ever hurt me like this. Today, I realized the truth.
The kind of human being I believed in—has no future in this world.
So farewell, everyone. I hope you live happy, long lives. And please, pray for the child who was forced to take their own life yesterday at 22:00. A child abandoned by family, who suffered an unbearably disgusting, cruel life. In the end, their soul could no longer bear it.
And remember: do not show mercy to those who do not deserve it. Because in a world where this child was murdered, no one deserves mercy.
Farewell.
Reading this blog—even arguing with rude people like Gree—was, in its own way, a pleasure of the highest kind
You and I are on the same page and the situation you describe is a familiar one to ordinary people across the West.
Many young men die here in similar circumstances because our leaders have sold their own people down the river.
I hope time will heal some of your pain.
I also hope that you will not abandon posting on here. What is going on for ordinary people in the Russian federation is priceless and you, with your command of written English are enlightening perhaps more people than you think. Many people read, consider, process information without necessarily commenting and even people who don't care for what you say may process it later and realise the valuable insights. You are doing that by contributing and you clearly care.
The great moron is detached from reality, it looks like you've gone full retard as well. Why do both of you have the same IP addy? Are you sharing her cubicle?
Yeah, once I see Trump cutoff US ISR (which is 90 percent of Ukrainian reconnaissance), and once Trump doesn't allow Europe to buy American weapons and send them to Ukraine, or Starlink gets cutoff, then I'll believe it.
I must have told you before: yes, terrible things happen to people being bombed by Ukraine's attack on Russian's pre 2022 territories, but add up the number of casualties and I think you won't come up with a 1000 people. You want to risk a global war to somehow revenge these unfortunate people? Think again. The number of casualties will be off the scale!
The exact official count the other day was 652 dead and ~3,000 wounded, but that does not include the Kursk invasion, where several thousand were slaughtered directly, not by bombing, and have not been counted yet
The issue here is not just those dead though, it is also the 100,000 dead soldiers, the 200-300,000 soldiers that have lost limbs, and the 5-6x that many on the Ukrainian side, most of whom are ethnic Russians too, plus the physical destruction.
In the previous thread I asked the hypothetical question, let’s repeat it here, slightly modified.
When the US dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it killed ~140,000 and ~70,000, respectively, plus, of course, destroying the cities.
Comparable to, or even quite a bit less damage than what has happened so far (again, a lot of the dead Ukrainians are ethnic Russians).
Now let's say NATO sends nuclear missiles at a couple Russian cities with population 100,000 each and wipes them out. What happens next? We have these questions to answer:
1) Would Moscow launch the nukes in response?
2) What would happen if it doesn't?
3) Why is inflicting the same damage conventionally permissible given the answers to 1) and 2)?
"Remember that Britain has good intelligence about the real situation and they would not be doing and saying these things simply on a whim. So far the consistent pattern has been that every escalation has been first publicly declared by the West, then actually carried out, and in the end the Kremlin has done nothing in response.
Which indicates that all such decisions are made with very careful consideration of the possible consequences and good knowledge of the real conditions."
I understand the critique you are making of the Kremlin. However, I'm not sure you're grasping the desperate situation the UK and Europe are in. They face losing the system they have built over centuries and the layers of power and entitlement they have built up through their States: they bet all their hands on the US to protect and consolidate that wealth and power and it is collapsing around them.
With your knowledge, I would suggest you think about the last days of the Soviet Union; how bureaucracies and state media kept control and bullshitting everyone when it was already fucked. That is arguably the West now. Their system is collapsing.
Perhaps Putin knows this and it may be that in fact it is the Kremlin's restraint: "Which indicates that all such decisions are made with very careful consideration of the possible consequences and good knowledge of the real conditions."
The USSR in the late 1980s is a very bad comparison.
It was objectively losing ground and internally destabilizing -- two of its own republics went to war with each other already in 1988, with Moscow totally impotent to do anything about it, the Baltics declared independence in 1990, etc.
Meanwhile the West has been on a clear winning and internal consolidation streak -- Sweden and Finland were officially absorbed into NATO, Syria was destroyed, Russia has firmly lost most of its near abroad (Armenia is now de facto a NATO ally, the Central Asian republics have drifted away, etc.), everyone in Europe except for Hungary diligently lined up and started sending weapons to the AFU, including even Serbia, and not just in Europe -- India did it too. India...
There are levels to this. Is the West in a bad shape compared to China? Sure. Is it in a much improved position relative to Russia? You bet.
It is the Chinese threat that is causing DC to force the vassals in Europe to be the cannon fodder in the war against Russia, while the US focuses on China. But that in no way means Russia is in a winning position currently.
Based on what is publicly known, this is not because of real military weakness, but because of internal dysfunction preventing the proper application of Russian hard power.
But it is entirely possible that the real military balance of powers is also not in Russia's favor, we just don't know about it.
And the long-term trend is again negative -- the Russian elite spent trillions on megayachts, mansions and private jets while not investing in the Russian space sector, the result of which is that the US will likely have the upper hand militarily again in the not too distant future, when the decisive strategic factor becomes space-based weapons.
I appreciate what you write but you are badly missing my points and the comparison is not a very bad one.
My understanding is you live in Russia and when it was the Soviet Union: I get a lot from reading your perspectives on your government.
However, you do not live here and did not live through the 1980s when Western decline and deindustrialisation began along with the selling off of nations and cultures to globalism and finance. The points you make above are shallow because I am talking about the insidious disintegration of societies over time and the methods used by power to add bureaucracies and bullshit covering this theft and collapse. You are clearly not aware of what a state the West is in and how broken large constituencies of people here are. Thanks for your reply.
Fuck off, will you.
This person or company just does not give up ... still posting the same spam and always 1 "Like".
Yet more of the same spam
None of them are a patch on newsbabe (Maria Zakharova) ow! ow! ow! OWWWWW!
I'd like to believe that but the image merchants have ruined her hair several times and some of her footwear has been so bad that it reminded me of the dark days of the 1970s. Shouldn't grumble though, we superannuated 1970s egalitarians can see through the bumflufferies to the real woman underneath. ;O)
;O)
noun
informal
the soft and fluffy growth of hair on the chin of an adolescent and by extension, trivial, fatuous, not serious.
"You're on two per cent, two and a half, maybe even three. Depends on the usual bumflufferies. It's not about the money with you and me is it, Gal? It's the charge, it's the bolt, it's the buzz, it's the sheer fuck off-ness of it all." (Sexy Beast)
Blimey!
No.
No.
Agree. It was obvious already in 2016. Good to hear him, Trump, say it loud and clear.
I also think he wouldn't have lost the 2020 elections, that resulted in the neocons taking over (again) foreign policy.
There will be many a neocon and deep stater who now wish they HADN'T fixed the 2020 election, because they spent 4 years after that harassing, deriding, even shooting at DJT, to prevent his return.
It was a 4 year Hollywood training montage, where *everything* they did made him that bit stronger, more resolute and more aware of their dirty tricks catalogue.
After Act 1, where the hero initially shines, but is defeated by dirty tricks, we had Act 2, where the evil guys ruled, but our hero endured and gathered his resources and friends, performed his training montage.
Now we get Act 3.
Serious ass kicking.
They got a quick rebuke from the Norwegian government. It's OK to talk smack, but not to actually physically smack when you can't back it up.
As Simplicius was saying, it's a clown show. I'm glad Zelensky showed up in his method actor Che Guervera costume, acting like a borish entitled beggar. He's their mascot.
It was inevitable that a sane person would not be able to stand it anymore, blow up and say out loud that he is a joke. Macron, Starmer, Kallas, Ursula, Trudeau, etc.. all of them, are freaking ridiculous, and to be scorned and laughed at.
Yes, we see you pretending that you are important and prestigious. No, we don't believe that you are. These people need to be made fun of, out loud, and often.
Get some medication for verbal diarrhoea . , or get off the medication you are on
Gee thanks for adding your incredible insights. Don't be jelly.
Rutte's job is only as important as DJT says it is. NATO is nothing without the US.
we were glad last year we finally got rid of Rutte as prime minister (3 periods, 12 years, ugh) and his 'promotion' to NATO chief is quite incomprehensible. unless NATO only wants to be an administrative entity...?
Merz is showing off his capabilities for play-acting and indeed, sabre-rattling in public, with his grandiose background as a corporate lawyer and BlackRock investment banker - https://unherd.com/2025/02/will-merz-sell-germany-to-blackrock/
For 14 years we had to endure Mark Rutte. Is very good at debating, has great dossier knowledge and as a negotiator, but has absolutely no vision. Numerous times that his memory left him during those years, that he had no recollection. A disgrace in the way he handled MH17, already the Russophobia was clearly visible. He, as a history teacher, also blamed the Russians for the BUK missiles killing 2 people in Poland as Russia has started this brutal and unprovoked was of aggression (sick). In his role of secretary general he even pushed up his warmonger anti-Russia rhetoric. It is pathetic to listen too (I have to force myself). The other day he was blaming the Russians for incidents happening at factories in Europe, dead of several people and the threat of Russia. Of course no evidence is ever supplied. And let's assume for a moment the Russian's have a hand, so Putin (always Putin) kills a couple of people, so he is bad. We kill tens of thousands and we are the good guys?
It's like a plane crash: everybody turns their head towards the plane crash and the number of people died in the crash, but nobody looks at the number of casualties in traffic.
Note: since 1971 around 150000 people died in plane crashes while around 75 million died in a car accident (currently 1.3million per year globally)
That the gherkins and pricks feign confidence and competence is obvious: they are Potemkin leaders.
However, "Collective Biden" has not gone away and I wonder what messages are being exchanged between that side in the US Civil War and these fucking European ghouls and avatars passing themselves off as leaders.
What do you think? I fear much violent flailing about, black ops, false flags and even attempts on DJT and his administration as it becomes more obvious these avatars for ancient, embedded UK and European layers of power and rule are fucked.
Will they take us all down or fuck off somewhere nice with their stolen loot and leave us all to rot?
These straussians are set on exploiting Americans and US resources to achieve full spectrum talmudic dominance. The ongoing Ukrainian tragedy is a fruit of zionists rabid hatred of Slavs. The Nuland-Kagan putsch in 2014 was run in a direct and tight collaboration with the Ukrainian Nazi Party Svoboda.
The shameless jewish tribe keeps its whining museums open as a reminder of jewish lack of honor and jewish shamelessness.
You forgot “a few stolen sex slaves” they’ll need in the bunkers, though. And various meds, vintage wines, etc. As Nuland, their very own Cruella said: “F*** the EU”
Nuland the JEW hates all the goyim...
Most likely the former, although the latter is still plausible. Regardless the average pleb in Europe will get binned, although those who were against all of this can at least give a middle finger to those who refused too and seduced into the hysteria and bloodlust of it all.
I can see the bankers wanting to take out DJT and his merry band of servants. But then maybe not. Isreal still has leash around his neck for now, unless Trump bins isreal altogether which i doubt very much at all.
No i think more attempts on him and his followers will be the go to, rather than fleeing. These people make feral ghouls in fallout look sane, well-adjusted, educated individuals, just a bit on the skinny side.
Hopefully they fuck off to some awful dimension akin to the nether, hell, lake of fire, Dark underworld, 9 circles of hell, Tartarus, Kuzimu, The hells of the forgotten realm, the deadlights, the void, the abyss, liminal spaces (None of the good ones either).
Hopefully anyways.
Indeed. Thanks for your great reply.
A family photo it is indeed!
It's a photo of a family that has been artificially constructed, a family which truly is mentally ill and rotten to the core.
These people dislike and mistrust each other intensely, but somehow they are able to conjure up a convincing but false image of harmony.
The recipe for the watery glue that can barely bind this bunch of power hungry usurpers together, comprises of a number of ingredients, among which are: Globalist ideology, Russophobia, European "superiority" and European "global relevance".
These are all then slowly stirred and cooked with the addition of massively inflated personal ego's.
However! Soon after Trump pulls the plug on NATO, the paper- thin veneer of European "civility" will quickly melt away, only to reveal rabid in-fighting.
Institutional rot, in combination with a desperate need for self-preservation, will cause the rats to turn on each other.
Over-night dissolution of EU unity will occur, and in turn, initiate collapse from within.
The EU dies. Long live Europe!
We need to avoid Europe until this insanity runs its course. They are a tiny part of the world.
I follow your advice in an, uh, literal way: I have big post retirement travel plans, but will avoid Europe until and unless their insanity ends.
I'd be more scared to go to Britain or Germany right now than anywhere.
Most of Europe outside the big cities is fine and the people are still sane. There's far more resistance than you Yanks think. We're definitely in for tough times and will probably be the big loser out of this fiasco (apart from Ukraine itself). However, it will be the end of the EU and hopefully Nato too.
Reality will bump them.
You had this ready to go within seconds of him publishing?
I normally like cheetos but the male anatomy size talk, is that a guy thing? As a mature female, this is not an issue. Ever. Only one thing matters to women, kind gentlemen, it's about its durable strength. 🤣
disagree. not keen on a pencil neck or pencil —ck
And how would you know that, ma'am? lol
Brilliant! 🥇 I deserved that, Juliaah. 🤣
Look what you’ve gone and done 🤣
he he, my so-called 'maturity' was not in charge of my internal, pesky TroubleMaker! I'm considering a delete, out of respect for cheetos, but he hasn't made comment so I might just let it ride. What say you?
Would you measure the time in minutes or hours? Just asking. lol
Touche!
". . . is that a guy thing?" From years of gym changing rooms, prison shower rooms (in my younger days), I've found it's usually a 'lying' guy thing. Mostly exaggerating. I've always found that it's only one part of the whole There's other parts that work (including the brain). Now I didn't start this - blame the SpringCheetos guy . . . . . didn't realise they were seasonal . . .thought Cheetos were year round Toxic Waste disguised as food. ;-)
he meant no harm and often a delightful commenter. I confessed to allowing my internal troublemaker to control my words. yes, cheetos, I believe they are the factory-made orange toxic waste pieces for which americans have convinced themselves are actually food. 😉
Didn't see your 'reply' Soujourner, hence my tardy comeback . . . . pls forgive me
There is an AWFUL lot of 'Toxic Waste' that your average American (in fact your average Wa$terner™, particularly the younger ones) views as food. I think Bobby Kennedy has his work cut out for him. That said, there's beginning to be a growing awareness of just how bad things are & that alternatives are available.
I can certainly freely type that much that quickly after reading Simp's article; in fact I think the length of my reply was double his, if not nearly triple and I think Cheetos posted like 5 minutes before I did.
Double or triple Cheeto's length and doesn't come...err, post... as quick.
But who lasted longer? (When both are thrusting, over and over! Touche’ to the both of you)
Gentlemen don't just share those secrets.
Yeah. He is preparing them in advance. Sometimes they are on topic, many off them off-topic.
Comment ambushing, where users piggyback on bigger accounts, has become an annoying practice. Aside from the usual suspects who are everywhere, newcomers are joining in, polluting the forums with their need to be heard while screaming on the shoulders of these established accounts. I’ve started avoiding comments because of this nonsense.
Cry me a river, man. You sound like the Gestapo.
Cry me a river? Oh, spare me your crocodile tears, fallen genius.
Gestapo? Did your paranoia concoct a Peilempfänger that is trying to catch your noble ‘buzz-click-whirr’ as you’re desperately seeking attention in comment sections? I’m not policing anyone—I’m just sick of wading through the sewage of attention-starved nobodies hijacking threads with their whining.
Gestapo? Nice try, but you’re the one goose-stepping around with that brain-dead hyperbole. If pointing out a plague of comment leeches sounds like Gestapo, then you’re the poster boy for the whining freeloaders I’m dodging.
Too much emotion, Cesare. I'm just defending Cheetos. He writes a lot of good stuff and you whine about irrelevant things. Live and let live, man.
Cheetos craves attention and whilst smart, hasn't the gonads or depth of knowledge to do other than hang on the coat-tails of those who have both
I enjoy Cheetos comments and find them consistently informative, funny and insightful.
Dems clutched pearls over Trump's locker room talk, but these same people want trannies to talk about their parts to all of us, even little kids.
In rare form tonight, Cheeto, rare form :)
Cheetos - not only prolific, but FAST.
Reminds me of the bigger prick foreign policy schtick by G. Carlin:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qqARrbi1h8
There is a very good, independent Italian political commentator by the name of Laura Ruggieri (publishes on many "alt" websites), who refers to these hapless Eurocrats as "EUnuchs." This fits very nicely with your own metaphors and is even more absolute.
Eunuches would be far more reasonable. The EU cretins are certainly involved in degrading sexual practices. Which also makes them easy to manipulate.
Funny never made the connection so neat. Talk about dirty tricks.
If UK's Stomer was smart it would generate an AI video showing Putin burning a Koran. Then it could recruit all of the illegal Muslims in the UK and send them off to fight for Ukraine. But Stormer ain't too bright, is it?
Not that it would even work anyway since Putin's support for a genuine multireligious society (not the reverse-colonized hellhole that is the UK) has been slathered over the media to try and smear him.
While Russia is as multicultural a society as is found anywhere, good luck convincing the average frustrated westerner otherwise.
:P
The Muslims would simply riot about Stasi Starmer not sending all the actual Brits off to fight Russia.
They wouldn't be volunteering themselves.
In Russia, burning The Quran is illegal, I'm sure Muslims won't fall for it.
I dunno, we were duly assured that invading Iraq would make it possible for girls to go to school.
The fact that Iraq under Saddam was a secular country, with women in government posts, never entered into the minds of most westerners.
And there were Christians in the government during Sadam Hussein's rule.
Tariq Aziz being a prominent example.
I am waiting for "shocking footage of new Russian atrocities ZOMG" in 5..4..3..2..1.
Eitehr that or Zelenskii gets a puppy.
Zelensky gets a puppy and Putin steals or kills it.
That dog will get wall-to-wall news coverage.
Remember The Great Kuwaiti Baby Incubator Hoax?
I was totally apolitical before this war, I didn't even pay attention then, I checked this nonsense only recently. They don't ever deviate from the jerk the public protocols - incubators, churned babies, babies raped with teaspoons - who cares if Denisova got fired for her lies, since even Italian MSM couldn't stomach such garbage, the catchy timelines stick in memory, even if there was nothing underneath...
IIRC, what sank Denisova was when various western NGOs and do-gooders heard of the horrific crimes perpetrated by the evil Russian barbarians and wanted to help the poor dears. Turned out that Denisova couldn't produce any victims, so she had to go.
Doesn't matter. Plenty of people recite the litanies of alleged atrocities all the same.
You'd be amazed how many people still think that Iraq was on the verge of developing The Bomb, Saddam's top weapons scientist defected and told us everything....(look up "Curveball", if you don't already know the story).
For that matter, look up Lord Posonby's Ten Rules of Wartime Propaganda. Humans are infinitely gullible.
I think at this day/age, one needs to make an effort to be that gullible. My state is forever Democrats, but their was a young Rep candidate to replace a Senator who was in DC for nearly 30 yrs. This young rep's hubby was in Iraq, and a wretched suicide bomber detonated his bomb, and he lost his eyesight forever. DoD tried to write him off, still a young man, so she fought for him to get a trainer/teacher job. Sounded ok. But she just went with the drill - "my husband defended democracy in Iraq" - She lost, and I wondered what could happened if she just told the truth; her husband was sent to Iraq, where he shouldn't be & when he lost his eyesight there, DoD tried to write him off, and she fought for him not to perish into nothingness, and just as hard she would fight for the people of her state."
Europe, or the EU, will leverage this to float Euro-bonds and launch a pan-European army. This is the first European empire in 1,000 years, ruling over 23 countries. It has little to do with Russia or Ukraine, which the do not care about. But rather launching the E.U. As a civilization-state to compete with USA, Russia, and China. 800 million people, one government. Yes, chaotic, ineffective, illegitimate- but they will cancel, censure, propagandize, arrest, imprison, and even kill to take this step. And if a few thousand multi-European troops have to die under Russian artillery to justify “Russia bad” and “defending democracy” the union of Europe and subjugation of 23 nations will justify it.
watch it fall apart within the first five years
Watch it fall apart before it even comes together
touche
https://files.catbox.moe/clvanl.jpg
Prophetic indeed!
Yep
Tower of Babel
Isn't EU population more like 500 million or so?
750,000+
With or without Ukrainians?
Doesn’t matter, most are still in Europe wether in jukraine or not.
It was sarcasm :-)
Oh, lol
Ukrainians are on the endangered species list now.
450
450 million in the EU, 750 million for Europe (which includes Russia)
Yes, if you counting the African and Middle Eastern asylum-seekers.
You make a great point that building a European Empire is probably on their minds. But I have strong doubts they'll pull it off.
First off, who will buy the debt they need to finance this mighty empire? The US Treasury is selling their 10 year Treasury notes at 4.625% and maturing bonds are currently yielding less than that. People are selling their Treasuries because no one wants bonds when inflation is rampant. So at what rate would Europe have to offer its own bonds in order to attract customers? A rate that is unsustainable, dragging Europe further into the hole. That doesn't mean they won't try it though.
The Euro is the #2 World Reserve Currency with a flat +/- 20% share over the last decade. The USD share has gradually declined, from 65.5% to 57.4%, with modest gains by China, Japan, Australia and Canada.
https://data.imf.org/regular.aspx?key=41175
or
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_currency#Major_reserve_currencies
If the US seriously wants manufacturing to return home it will encourage other countries to take on more of the World Reserve Currency role. Industry will not return without a basket of incentives, including a weaker dollar.
We will have to wait to see how the contradictory strategies announced by the Trump Admin play out.
The Euro makes Bitcoin seem like gold sovereigns.
Your timing is off. The EU attempted this already and is now on the way out, desperately grasping for anything to hold on to in order to slow or stop the inevitable.
They missed their chance - if they ever had one to start.
Yes, June 22, 1941.
The EU is a creation of the CIA. Here is what the biased and fact-hiding AI has to say:
The claim that the CIA "created" the European Union (EU) is an oversimplification of historical events. While the United States, including its intelligence agencies, played a role in supporting European integration during the post-World War II period, this involvement was part of broader geopolitical strategies rather than direct creation or control of the EU.
### Key Points:
1. **U.S. Support for European Integration**:
- In the late 1940s and early 1950s, the U.S. actively supported European integration to stabilize the region economically and politically after World War II and to counter Soviet influence during the Cold War[1][2][3].
- The American Committee for a United Europe (ACUE), chaired by former OSS head William J. Donovan, was a key organization in promoting European federalism. Declassified documents reveal that ACUE provided significant funding to pro-European movements, including 53.5% of the European Movement's funds in 1958[2][3].
2. **CIA Involvement**:
- The CIA, through ACUE and other channels, worked covertly to support initiatives like the creation of a European Parliament and other integration efforts[2][3]. This was seen as a way to ensure a strong, united Western Europe aligned with U.S. interests.
3. **Role of European Leaders**:
- European leaders like Jean Monnet and Robert Schuman were instrumental in founding what would become the EU, starting with institutions like the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) in 1951. While Monnet had ties to U.S. officials and received support, he and other Europeans were driving forces behind integration efforts[4][6].
4. **Cold War Context**:
- U.S. involvement in European integration was primarily motivated by Cold War dynamics. A unified Europe was seen as a bulwark against Soviet expansion and a way to promote economic recovery under the Marshall Plan[5].
### Conclusion:
The CIA and other U.S. entities played a supportive role in fostering European unity but did not "create" the EU. The foundation of the EU was primarily driven by European leaders seeking peace and economic cooperation after World War II. U.S. actions were part of broader Cold War strategies rather than direct control over Europe's political future.
Citations:
[1] https://www.secretintelligenceservice.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/The-European-Union-always-was-a-CIA-project.pdf
[2] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/04/27/the-european-union-always-was-a-cia-project-as-brexiteers-discov/
[3] https://www.sott.net/article/268442-United-States-of-Europe-EU-was-created-by-the-CIA
[4] https://user.iiasa.ac.at/~marek/fbook/04/print/ee.html
[5] https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/pais/people/aldrich/publications/oss_cia_united_europe_eec_eu.pdf
[6] https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/european-union/
[7] https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-spy-service-cia-ursula-von-der-leyen/
[8] https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/document/cia-rdp79-00927a004500120002-0
based and fact hiding indeed. There is no other logical explanation of the current extreme weak political establishment: it has been groomed by media and NGO's supported by the USA (through the CIA and other organizations). It has never been organic.
'It has never been organic' < this is the main point. although creating the horrific Euro seems to indicate there is some sort of union, there isn't and this will come more and more apparent. we liked our own currencies, we liked our own quaint city centers. both NATO and the manufactured EU will slowly but surely implode because it has no base.
I love it how even the “smartest” entities can be made to reveal their true colors with just a simple workaround. Nicely done.
EU lacks the primary necessity for a civilization state - civilization.
Not even the Roman Empire could hold together without various parts rocketing away in different directions.
There was a civilization state there not long ago - Yugoslavia. It didn't work very well, did it?
I could perhaps see the Nordics get together since they're by nature sufficiently cool headed to look in the same direction. But that's not much.
Under Tito, Yugoslavia did quite well as I understood from an older lady from Bosnia who came as a refugee to our country in the 90-ties.
Of course, there is no politician of Tito's caliber anywhere to be seen in "Europe."
no-one had the right, for whatever reason, to bomb Yugoslavia to smithereens (ht Madeline Albright).
The Roman Empire survived in Constantinople long after Rome itself fell to the barbarians.
A pan-European Empire with a stridently anti-European ethos, given its core tenet of replacing the native European populace with third-world immigrants as rapidly as possible? A perplexing combination indeed. It seems this so-called European Empire's concept of a 'European Empire' would be purely geographic, not ethnic, and would certainly not be an empire dedicated in preserving the continent's historic cultural achievements, given that actively holds so many of them, like its native populace, in contempt (indeed, the historic European legacy in question is already valued and preserved far more reverently by numerous nations outside the EU - nations this 'empire' would view as bitter enemies). Whether what you mention is a likely outcome in reality or not, I don't doubt many of the odious 'elites' pictured in the London summit in this article do dream of such a thing, inasmuch as it would given them a more direct platform from which to pursue their agenda.
London, Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and more, all Islamic strongholds now. Nothing, absolutely NOTHING 'European' about them.
Very true, once they start talking about potentially using Sharia Law for things like divorce, it is over.
People should read Nassim Taleb's chapter from "Skin in the Game" on "How the Most Intolerant Wins"
https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dictatorship-of-the-small-minority-3f1f83ce4e15
That's a very interesting article. Long, but worth a read. I disagree with a few points, but a quality piece overall.
Well put. And remember these are the very people that have taken over UK and European states and colonised them for the globalists. That is to say they have sold out their own countries and allowed the fabric of their cultures to be picked apart, insidiously, bit by bit.
The strongest suit they have is really clever advertising and public relations smart arses that now run mainstream media. Could they convince enough of their citizen's to fight for their gold? Their advantage in bullshit helps, but it is shallow when compared to the actual material circumstances their citizens can see in front of them. These ghouls think they can ask the very people who's lives and cultures they've ruined to go out and die for them. Can't resist posting this famous prose from Marat:
"Don’t be deceived when they tell you things are better now. Even if there’s no poverty to be seen because poverty’s hidden. Even if you ever got more wages and could afford to buy more of these new and useless goods which industries foist on you; and even if it seems that you never had so much; that is only the slogan of those who still have much more than you. Don’t be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say there’s no equality worth speaking of and no more reason to fight; because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and their granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretence of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they’ll send you out to protect their gold in wars who’s weapons’ rapidly developed by servile scientists, will become more and more deadly until they can, with a flick of their fingers, tear a million of you to pieces."
Jean Paul Marat (1743 – 1793)
I pray a chance will come to get these rotten bastards and string them up from every available lamppost.
Well they certainly do seem to have an emerging army of flying monkeys..
Not gonna happen, Europe's countries are too divided and local population are sick of EU policies and unelected bureaucrats.
They are but, don't do much about it as individualism has been promoted to prevent larger groups to emerge in protest. Now most are afraid to expose themselves as they don't know if they will be backed-up or helped by others. The ones exposing themselves are easy target for the system and after they have given an example, even fewer people will stand up. Without income, a job, it will be very difficult to support the family in the way we are used to. Not a very attractive proposition.
This is the Game of Threats and it’s as old as the hills. Yes they can single out one or several people, or in some cases manufacture them. Hold them against the wall, beat them and make them bleed. “SEE?! See what happens when you disobey?!” The catch is that when people have very little to loose this leverage decreases drastically. So to the unelected technocrats I say this: go ahead and create a set of examples, but do be careful just how many become destitute as a result because before you know they could be on your very doorstep.
and rightly so
The hatred for the EU in the rural areas of Spain is approaching the threshold for "armed rebellion," or so I hear from my friends in Spain. Of course, this is a small sample size. Anyone in rural Spain care to confirm?
Pure nonsense. Look at that map Simplicius posted: "Would you fight for your country?"
Nobody wants to fight for their own countries. What makes you think somebody will fight for the EU or for a European army?
The foreign invaders won't fight for the EU either, if 'that's what you mean'. They've got other things on their mind.
It's quite astonishing that this post has so many likes.
Where did he say that the people want to fight? On the contrary, he clearly said that this is essentially a group of unelected, rogue leaders who'll force what they want over the will of the people. Just add the word "draft" into this sentence that he wrote: "but they will cancel, censure, propagandize, arrest, imprison, and even kill to take this step."
His post would be even more nonsensical if he wouldn't imply that 'people want to fight'.
Do you think that you must become a soldier and go to the front when you're 'drafted'?
Hermann Goering had some practical insight into this subject.
What makes you think somebody will fight for the EU or for a European army?
Indeed. Let's hope that in fact they do fight, but against these ghouls, overthrow them and string them up.
Mercinary armies are a tale as old as time. If you pay them, they will come.
The EU economy is in dire straits and in no position to sustain a military independent of the US. Look at the rapid deindustrialization of Germany, the strongest economy in the EU, for the evidence of this.
Yes, agree! I would not perhaps go so far as to talk about the birth of a civilisation-state, but for the rest, it is exactly what I wrote about here:
The EU Wants to Cynically Use War for Debt Bonanza: The Idea is to Use the War as Political Cover for Massive Joint EU Bonds Issue
https://finnandreen.substack.com/p/the-eu-wants-to-cynically-use-war
Nailed it in one. EU involvement in Ukraine had nothing to do with "saving democracy" but everything to do with creating at last the European Super state that the EU always intended itself to be. The problem was that all this could only work by piggybacking the US. Now Trump has so wisely pulled the rug from under the Euroweenies, they've been left high and dry. But like all good psychopaths, retreat is not an option. Instead they will double down and it will lead to the end of their megalomanic dreams. This is going to be fun to watch for anyone who hates the Deep State
Well, Oregonian, first you would have to agree on capital, headquarters. Is it Berlin? If not, why?
It obviously cannot be London, Britain exited EU, and EU is still alive, not well, but still breathing.
It cannot be Paris.
It cannot be Rome, Madrid.
It cannot be Warsaw
It is either Brussels, ineffective EU
or Berlin a new European superstate.
If Europeans accept Berlin as future capital, and Germans accept the burden of being the foundation
You are witnessing the rise of the big gay fourth reich, which will eventually find itself in a civil war as the forces that seek to turn it into a caliphate attack it from within.
The US' yapdogs are desperately scrambling for their master to save them
And Trump is looking down and saying, "no".
zion don only cares about that illegal jew terrorist state....
Unfortunately my ostensible leader who has already kind of, maybe, announced his resignation insists on giving my tax dollars to piano d#ck man while flying to Europe on my tax dollars.
I know how you feel. Every time I see that dickwad pretending to represent Canadians I want to bang my head against the wall.
>Certainly not for Americans who could no longer care less about Ukraine, or Europe for that matter.
Why are we so sure?
As far as we can tell, everything continues as before where it matters -- on the battlefield. It will be felt almost immediately if the US properly withdraws from the war, meaning ISR is shut down and the AFU is left high and dry.
Do we see that? No.
>Britain’s dead-eyed toad then proceeded to promise backing Ukraine’s sovereignty with ‘boots on the ground and planes in the air’:
Remember that Britain has good intelligence about the real situation and they would not be doing and saying these things simply on a whim. So far the consistent pattern has been that every escalation has been first publicly declared by the West, then actually carried out, and in the end the Kremlin has done nothing in response.
Which indicates that all such decisions are made with very careful consideration of the possible consequences and good knowledge of the real conditions.
Why would it be any different now? The Kremlin not only had all the reasons in the world, it was in fact mandatory to have smoked much of NATO in Europe a long time ago. If the people in charge in the Kremlin truly care about their country, of course. That it has still not happened can only mean:
1) The people in the Kremlin are traitors, and/or do not care about the country, and/or do not have the courage to defend it, and/or will sell it out at the first opportunity
2) NATO actually holds the military-technical upper hand.
Either way, past behavior and events being the best predictor of future actions and developments, the safe bet is on European NATO armies entering Ukraine and Putin not doing anything to stop it.
>In short: Europe is too terrified to go it alone and will not deploy troops unless it has American guarantees about backing them up should Russia turn their peace keepers into toasted compost.
Europe has now on many occasions shelled Russian cities with purely terrorist intentions, just to kill. Women and children primarily. Nothing happened to anyone responsible. That does not look like being terrified to me and/or not having US backing. And it does not speak well about the future potentialities.
>Russia, in the meantime, has requested direct flights between the US to be resumed:
Big mistake. The USSR was on the irreversible path to collapse the moment Khrushchev decided to go for friendship with the US. The corrosive influence started pouring into the country immediately, and we know what happened eventually. The North Koreans are the only ones who understood it after what happened in the early 1950s. The Russians suffered similarly, but almost immediately forgot the lesson.
>From Russia’s perspective, the only way it can trust the US again, to the point of actually ending the conflict at some point in the future, is if the US shows an unprecedented deal of good faith by ‘thawing’ relations, and normalizing at least the most practical of roadblocks between the two countries. It’s understandable that the big things like sanctions must stay on for now, for appearances sake, but the US will have to show Russia it’s capable of meeting it half-way after decades of betrayal. In that light, these things are a good start…but only a start.
Not remotely sufficient. The blood debt has to be repaid. How many dead Russian soldiers and civilians are we talking about (on both sides -- always remember that most Ukrainians are ethnic Russians too and this is a civil war engineered from the outside) and how much destruction?
Unless the Kremlin demands that those responsible be handed over to Russia for public torture and execution, the blood debt will remain, and the Kremlin will be guilty of high treason. And relationship can only be normalized with some degree of real trust if Trump actually does hand those people over. But we are talking thousands of high-ranking members of the Western elite, including the likes of Lindsey Graham in Trump's own party, so yeah, good luck with that.
Sorry, your post is full of nice sounding rhetoric with no factual basis in reality....need to stop absorbing the BS from the
mainstream propaganda media. Putin is in the drivers seat, on the battlefield and in the political arena. The EU acts as if they're still a power center and relevant. They're not. A leaked report stated that Britain as at most 24 functional tanks, about enough to last a week in the typical Ukrainian battlefield scenario. The EU needs the US backing to put boots on the ground and prolong the war. Won't happen. Please point out one campaign promise Trump has resigned on...not one. He and Putin will end this stupid proxy war, and the EU will whimper but comply.
Dick Minnis
removingthecataract.substack.com
>Putin is in the drivers seat, on the battlefield and in the political arena
Yes, you see, this is in fact the essence of the problem.
If Putin is indeed in the driver seat, and the Russian flag is not flying over Kiev, and Russian troops are not patrolling the Polish border, then what does that tell us?
I, for the record, fully agree with the notion that Putin has the capability to achieve those things rather quickly, but the empirical reality is that he hasn't and the Russian army is bogged down in a drone-imposed stalemate for three years.
So we have two options:
1) Internal politics dictates foreign policy, and in this case the Russian oligarchy does not want victory, so it is not being actively pursued.
2) In fact the assumption that Russia has the upper hand militarily is wrong.
Do you see another option?
Either way, we have a big problem.
FFS, you are like a broken record: "Putin is weak; he's not doing enough; blah, blah, blah..." While Putin has "not been doing anything," the US has started to drop out of this war (and out of NATO), and the EU and the remains of NATO are falling apart. Why would he launch a blitzkrieg and risk huge casualties when he can continue to grind Ukraine slowly and let his enemies just evaporate on their own? Russia has escalation dominance. It could nuke all of Ukraine, and the US would not do a thing about it because they will not trade New York for Kiev. But fortunately, Putin is not going to do that because he doesn't have to, and he doesn't have a clown like you advising him.
>Why would he launch a blitzkrieg and risk huge casualties when he can continue to grind Ukraine slowly and let his enemies just evaporate on their own
Because he can do a blitzkrieg with practically zero casualties if he used all the tools at his disposal while the grind is precisely what has killed over 100K Russian soldiers.
That is why.
> It could nuke all of Ukraine
We found yet another Westerner who does not understand anything about this war.
Russia will never nuke Ukraine because UKRAINE IS RUSSIA. That would be nuking your own people and land.
Who must be nuked is NATO in Europe. And here is the problem -- so far Western lives have been clearly much, much more valuable to the Kremlin than Russian lives....
I understand that a blitzkrieg will create more Russian casualties; I understand that attacking Europe will create more Russian casualties. Why would Russia do this when the current level of Russian casualties is acceptable? Perhaps not for the Russian soldier who gets killed, but that's how war works. This isn't a video game. And Russia has escalation dominance.
What you don't understand, or simply choose to ignore, is that the goals for the SMO were very clearly stated by Putin. They are demilitarization, denazification, and ensuring a neutral Ukraine. There was no timeline given to accomplish this. The Russians are achieving their goals and they are winning.
Not fast enough or violent enough for you? Too bad. I trust the military thinkers in the Kremlin far more than some anonymous clown continuously making crisis posts in the comment section of this blog.
>I understand that a blitzkrieg will create more Russian casualties; I understand that attacking Europe will create more Russian casualties. Why would Russia do this when the current level of Russian casualties is acceptable?
Every single thing said here is wrong.
First, the casualties are acceptable to you because you are in the West and they do not affect you in any way nor do you care about Russian people. It is a video game/sports contest for you. They are not in way acceptable otherwise
Second, attacking Europe will end the war immediately. Poland, Germany, etc. cease to exist in a couple hours, what do you think will be the reaction? The other NATO countries will attack Russia? Of course not, nobody ever again will dare fire a single bullet against Russia and all hostile actions cease immediately. Because nobody will risk the same happening to them.
The blitzkrieg will happen with few casualties if logistics are broken and Ukraine is cut off from the West. Or rather, it would have been before they were allowed the luxury of three years of accumulating drones and other weapons all over the country. Now it will be much more difficult indeed even if Ukraine is cut off. Still, it will be much easier than what we have now.
But Ukrainian logistics remains off limits for strikes. Why?
No, it is not because that is the smarter strategy, that is you rationalizing what would be immensely absurd military stupidity if it was sincerely thought as the correct way to proceed in order to not have to face the reality that Russian leadership is not acting in the best interests of Russia the country. The latter is too painful to digest, thus the desperate need for rationalizing it away.
>...the goals for the SMO were very clearly stated by Putin. They are demilitarization, denazification, and ensuring a neutral Ukraine.
And none of these goals has been achieved, nor can it be achieved even in principle without going to the Polish border and ending Ukrainian statehood altogether.
Which Putin has neither prepared Russia for no has he indicated he has any intention of doing.
Therefore Putin has decided to lose the war.
Blitzkrieg is a specific term that applies to a military doctrine employed by the German army in the early years of WWII in which armored vehicles were assembled together into their own divisions (rather than dispersed as support weapons throughout the infantry corps). These armored, highly mobile divisions (complete with mechanized infantry) were then used to exploit a breakthrough in defensive positions that were not held properly in depth (ala France's Maginot line) and create large pockets of an enemy packed along a line (WWI style).
The doctrine of blitzkrieg proved flawed in the vast expanses of the eastern front. What worked in compact regions of France and the low countries or against an unprepared Poland did not work in Russia for Germany.
It is not so much "blitzkrieg" that Russia needs, because drones make large mechanized columns a liability (as Simplicius has observed time and again). They need to engage and stay engaged relentlessly in one or two sectors once defensive positions crumble, with reserves ready to move in and stay on the offensive, rather than shifting theaters after each incremental advance and each Festung that falls. The reluctance to stay engaged and press forward allows the Ukrainians to dig on time and again, which results in higher casualties assaulting fixed positions rather than hounding retreating troops in open fields all the way to the Dnieper.
find the jew wherever it has infested the west and drive it out...
You are simply retarded
Shock and Awe is not Russia's style. This is a war of attrition. They have done quite well eating up Ukrainian military and all the West's equipment and ammo.
If they wanted to go American style and carpet bomb, hell yeah, they could have done that easily. You need to remember "Oreshek". They don't even need nukes.
>If they wanted to go American style and carpet bomb
Yet another know-nothing who doesn't understand the situation.
Russia does not have the military-technical capability to carpet bomb in Ukraine. Nobody does, not even the US. Planes will be shot down immediately and nobody has that many missiles
Russia can only nuke.
The point is to do it on Poland and Romania (and Germany, Czechia, Denmark, the Netherlands, Finland, Sweden, Norway, etc., if you want to extend the list) if you are going for total annihilation, so that nobody else dares be aggressive towards Russia again, or to use tactical nukes to completely break and blockade logistics inside Ukraine (with close to zero civilian casualties) so that you win the war.
P.S. Why would you even carpet bomb. What will that achieve?
"american" style war is jew war where women and children are terror bombed: dresden; hiroshima, gaza, etc.. the jew - as always - is the problem....
Still demanding a magic pony, immediately?
you say shock and awe is not Russia's style? are you sure?
What's Oreshnik then? What's FAB 3000? What is the Sointsepyok ? I suspect they're as familiar with the concept as anyone else and the demonstration of Oreshnik was clearly a shock and awe demonstration and it worked I think?
The 'war of attrition' well may be but the point is was it a deliberate choice or the only option? It seems any objective view of the facts reveals Russia was ill prepared for this conflict but - as part of being ill prepared - didn't know that at the beginning.
They had corruption and inefficiency from top to bottom. Everywhere but we're talking simply the military here.
It is still being found out. I have strong doubts about the Kursk region for instance. I'd love to know what Prigozhin would say about it. I do know what Alaudinov used to say about it a year ago: all pure tosh as revealed now.
America envisaged a war of attrition on Russia is the point. They chose that. Russia has/had no choice but to go along with it.
We are still at that now. Any pause, any ceasefire, Russia knows, is just that: merely a pause... the long war of attrition will still continue.
It seems never to get said any more though a short while ago it was loudly said on all sides: the enemy is America. What ritualised dances re Ukraine and Russia American's implacable war will continue won't it?
Now we're all pretending 'america has washed its hands of the war' etc. Pretending that is 'was always UK'. Horseshit. It was and is america.
Why/how? Because America is merely a pseudonym for a bunch of oligarchs who may or may not be Jews, I don't know. But they are like, for instance, Blackrock, I think. And the money there is more than the GDP of a number of nations added up I recently read.
Those people, those forces, never let up on seeking opportunities for plunder. Never.
That's why Russia has to go war of attrition. It has to keep in reserve forces enough to meet sudden stabs in the back, it has to keep in reserve resources to meet the long war....
It has to employ its energies in other 'theatres' or 'levels' or whatever of this war: politics, economics, trade...
America never lets up. See it at this very moment manipulating elections throughout Europe. Russia has to be mindful and resourceful and prepared to meet and counter..
>They had corruption and inefficiency from top to bottom. Everywhere but we're talking simply the military here.
Which is true, but it's not the reason Russia lost the war -- the reason is that there simply was no political order to win it
"Shock and Awe is not Russia's style."
Ever heard of Bagration? August Storm? Lvov-Sandomierz? Uranus? The destruction of the Czech Spring? The Brusilov Offensive? The rescue of Ethiopia in 1977-78?
Actually, Putin is in the driver's seat and has been from the beginning. He has significantly drained US/UK/NATO resources, disrupted the EU economy, forced political instability, cracked open NATO unity, preserved Ukrainian civilian lives - all by a slow, deliberate war of attrition.
Not gained much territory? That's not the point of attrition. The point is to destroy the military capability of the enemy and incapacitate their will to continue fighting - territory comes later. And Putin has now erased virtually all obstacles to a huge territorial gain this year or next by maneuvering the US, UK and Europe into a situation in which the military capability of the West is severely impacted and political will among the population is declining - and now Putin can demonstrate to the world that whilst he has on multiple occasions pleaded for peace, all such efforts have failed - indeed, Europe now demands more war demonstrably in the face of intense efforts to bring peace - and so only one solution remains - taking all of Ukraine, which I believe Russia will end up doing. Trump, meanwhile, lives in a bubble of his own making - a complete misunderstanding of Russia's intent in this war and its complete dedication and fierce determination to accomplish its ends. He believes he can quickly buy Russia off in a huge business transaction and establish an American version of peace there - not on your life, as Russia considers this an existential struggle and will give no quarter in achieving its own survival.
Look for Russia to completely break the back of Ukraine in the coming months and at that point begin the drive to the Polish border all the while giving the impression that he was forced to do so by a war-mongering Europe.
None of this could have been accomplished by a Big Arrow War. That is simply not Russia's style.
You still haven't grasped the essential nature of the war or Putin's aims. Putin never mentioned seizing territory as a war aim. His target was to demilitarise Ukraine. A war of attrition achieves that because it grinds down the enemy forces. And who can argue that he hasn't succeeded? The Ukies have suffered close to a million casualties and will never again have the manpower to kill ethnic Russians in the Donbas.
>Putin never mentioned seizing territory as a war aim.
Which is the essence of the problem
>His target was to demilitarise Ukraine.
And how is that going to happen without annexing the whole of Ukraine?
>A war of attrition achieves that because it grinds down the enemy forces.
How many hundreds of thousands do you need to launch drones and missiles into Russia in perpetuity?
>And who can argue that he hasn't succeeded?
The daily realities on the front lines.
>The Ukies have suffered close to a million casualties and will never again have the manpower to kill ethnic Russians in the Donbas.
Most Ukrainians are ethnic Russians. According to Putin himself. He wrote a long article on that question that he published in mid-2021. He has been mostly slaughtering what he officially considers his own people. Amazing success...
Donnie promised mass deportations but so far he has deported less than the Biden administration. ICE has 7400 field agents and is only arresting about 500 per day. That is absolutely pathetic, kinda like Pam Sessions.
Brace yourself Americans in the comments will howl at you again, accusing you of treason, branding you some CIA funded running gloom and doom psyops to undermine the heroic triumph of Putin’s mythical 5D chess. it's practically an honored tradition on this blog now.
People write their wishfull thinking,fantasies Russia’s unstoppable ascendancy, America’s downfall at the hands of the righteous, some cosmic score settled through obscure victories over supposedly degenerate targets :) :) :) And then you arrive and show them reality than they curse you, curse you and curse you again.
Most ironic part of it is with months passing time is always proved you are right and they are wrong in fricking everything. I fear they are not real humans. Maybe they are bots or maybe they are raised in some basement or cave by their abuser without intterraction with any sane person
They’ll call you liar, traitor, warmonger, tool of foreign infiltration aka CIA. And They are doing this with unwavering conviction. What a nice irony!!!
Yet the cycle never breaks: fresh illusions (like Russia winning a great win against so called Gay/Trans/jew collective west ) spring forth, than you arrive and show reality, fresh curses are start to flung, than months passes and time show you are right and their wrong. and keep going. Goes on. This is really our sad tradition. stuck in a purgatory of wilful ignorance and bottomless spite.
I feel like this is real hell experiences. Forced to living with utterly ignorant and bad people. I don't think any hell fire cannot torture me anymore
I believe Russia will lose all its wars, not because of its enemies, and not even because of its own incompetence, but rather because of its so called friends. With friends like those, who needs enemies?
By the way, for at least the last six months, I’ve been reading Simplicius specifically for your comments. Thank you for writing. That wasn’t my original intention, but at some point, I realized that whenever there’s a new article, the first thing I do is search for your name
Thank you!
>I believe Russia will lose all its wars, not because of its enemies, and not even because of its own incompetence, but rather because of its so called friends. With friends like those, who needs enemies?
Well, here is the thing though -- why would anyone be loyal to Russia given what it has done to its sincerely loyal allies in recent decades?
Did people in Bulgaria, Romania, the GDR, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Poland want to go capitalist? Maybe in the latter three, certainly not in the former three. Nobody asked them though, regime change and abandonment of socialism was ordered from Moscow and then duly carried out.
Did the Cubans and North Koreans want to starve in the 1990s? Of course not, but nobody asked them. Moscow cut them off abruptly, despite their decades-long strict loyalty.
What happened to Syria just a few months ago?
And many such stories in between.
The biggest one being the Kremlin's betrayals of Russia itself, which are too many to list.
Those are the sad facts...
I cannot agree more. Russia itself betrays its nation, its history, its sacrifices, and everything once sacred. I witnessed much of this betrayal with my own eyes. It is beyond tragic. I once received a job offer from Rostec (a Russian military company), but I refused. Because, why not? Getting three times bigger paychecks from the so-called gay/trans/homo Western world is a million times better and more honorable, I thought. The current Russian state is the pinnacle of shame. They sell their resources to other nations as cheaply as water. They sell their women in brothels in Turkey, Berlin, Tel Aviv, and the remaining parts of the world!!! And right now, Putin sells his soldiers—the best men of Russia—in the swamps of Ukraine to cheap $1,000 Chinese drones!!!!! Like a real African country. Like a real joke.
If Stalin or Strelkov were in power, I would go to war without hesitation, because I know my sacrifices wouldn’t go in vain and the enemies wouldn’t be happy. But the current Putin and oligarch state is horrible. One boy from my city joined the Russian army (he was a communist like me and thought serving in the Russian army would be a good way to repay the Soviet Union and its sacrifices), and in just one freaking month, he died from some stupid grenade dropped by some stupid drone. Now I empathize with him, thinking that if it were me who died, then American people would come here and comment their horribly low-intelligence fantasies about how Putin is destroying the so-called homo/trans/gay/Jew Western world. Even the thought gives me shivers
Right now, I’m so happy to finally be serving Western capitalists. It’s better to live and die in a life of luxury than to serve some not-real ideology (4th Political Column, Dugin, Eurasia, BRICS, Putin, etc.) as a poor peasant.
These people in the comments are beyond salvation. They blame you for following mainstream media. What audacity!!!! They have been brainwashed by mainstream media their entire lives, they have no unique or original ideas, they just believe whatever they were taught on TV and in schools, and then they come and blame you for following mainstream media? What the heck is that? Really, what is this?
Is this a joke? Is this a freaking joke?
Do you know what we can do about this sheer ignorance and these brainwashed people? Just serve Western capitalists and help extend the Western capitalist world’s hegemony more. Because these people definitely deserve it. They need natural selection. They are not the same humans as us, so to speak
It is obvious that if I disagree with you, you are already convinced that I am brainwashed turd deserving of being flushed down the toilet. So I won't bother. At least with GM he generally doesn't preface his comments with scathing pre-judgement of his audience - he gets right to his points and invites replies without personal insults.
Is this another joke? Do you know what sort of replies “GM” has been getting from people like you for an entire year or more? Generally, they call him one of two things. In the polite version, he’s a CIA asset, a funded troll, a fascist, a doomer, low intelligence, etc. In the worse version, they directly insult and swear at him. And you say I am rude? That I am cursing you? No, my friend, no. I’m only stating the truth about what we feel and how we live right now. I don’t care about you. Please, call me a CIA asset and a troll. Then tell me your fantasies about Russia’s victory over the so called globo/homo/gay/trans/Jew Western alliance! Please enlighten me and other doomers. we need your definitely non mainstream views
Do you know why you guys act this way? Because the people dying out there don’t matter to you. You have no real affinity for them beyond your imaginary fantasies. If those dying in the field were your own kin, your blood, your friends, your comrades, you wouldn’t be writing those fantasies in the first place. It’s unfair, and I’m tired of holding my tongue This is unfair
the "west" has become this because of the jew: globo/homo/gay/trans/jew
Not rude but fully RETARDED
>One boy from my city joined the Russian army (he was a communist like me and thought serving in the Russian army would be a good way to repay the Soviet Union and its sacrifices), and in just one freaking month, he died from some stupid grenade dropped by some stupid drone.
Which is another tragedy of the current situation -- negative selecton.
It is this type of motivated volunteers dying in the trenches.
The liberal degenerates are not the ones dying
So your fellow faggot from San Francisco moved to Russia to join the army? Highly unlikely.
You disappoint me. There are many who appreciate you, GM, and others on this forum coming from the former Soviet Union and with such an excellent command of English. I'm one of them.
Many Western people loathe the reduction of complexity to "Four legs good, two legs bad" in George Orwell's words.
I understand you are sticking up for GM but what you are writing is childish and beneath you. Let's not all end up being 5 year olds in the playground because nobody will gain wisdom. I'm writing this to you because I normally read all your posts and still will. Perhaps you're having a bad day.
Yesterday, when I read your words, I felt shamefully like a child who had done something wrong. Do you know what happened later? I read in the newspaper that one of my drinking friends committed suicide by hanging.
At 22:00 yesterday, a life was lost. All night and throughout today, I kept thinking and thinking. And I realized—this was inevitable. I was weak. I couldn't even help myself, so how could I help others? Knowing me was just another misfortune for all my friends.
A child of Russia, born with Russian blood, died yesterday—hanging in some literal hellhole. And I knew it beforehand. I knew this was coming, yet I still couldn't do anything. Do you know why this happened? Because of Putin and his oligarch buddies. They are the ones responsible, first and foremost, for making this child live like that—and die like that. I cannot give details, but their blood is on Putin’s hands, at least in large part.
One of Russia’s children died yesterday. Alone. Without a choice. At 25 years old, there was no hope left. Everyone abandoned this child—even me. At least I have an excuse: I had no power to save them. But none of you helped either.
This message is not a lie, my friend. I wish it were. I wish this were just some pathetic attempt to get attention. But no. Yesterday, a child of Russia—raised with Russian books, carrying the weight of Russian history—died alone. Forced to die by disgusting people. And Putin let it happen.
But I must add something else—I truly believe this child was forced into suicide, maybe even murdered. Maybe strangled to death and staged to look like suicide. Maybe with a gun at their head, no way out. I don’t have the power to know exactly what happened. But I am certain of one thing—this was not just a simple suicide. This child was either forced or outright murdered. And there will be no justice. None at all.
I wish I could tell the whole story. But I can’t even say a name. Why? I can’t even leave a comment under that newspaper article, pretending I was truly a friend. No, no, no. That would be too dangerous.
This is my final message here. I will never think about politics, morality, ethics, God—none of it. I will just live my life with no empathy for anyone. This world is nothing but darkness.
By the way, let me leave you all one last gift as a farewell: You will never win. The sides you support will always lose. Why? Because you are weak—just like me. And the world demands the blood of the weak. This is evolution. This is why that child died yesterday—because natural selection does not forgive weakness.
You know, I had plans to save them. And others. I’m just a regular peasant, but I was willing to sacrifice my life. I was even planning to reach out to GM and that Rolo Slaviclands guy. I was going to trust them, tell them my plan—to save countless Russian people. Because even in weakness, we still have one thing: our lives to sacrifice, to take them by surprise, to make the oligarchs tremble.
But now I understand.
After crying so much today, I finally understand.
Not even the lovers who betrayed me, who cheated on me, ever hurt me like this. Today, I realized the truth.
The kind of human being I believed in—has no future in this world.
So farewell, everyone. I hope you live happy, long lives. And please, pray for the child who was forced to take their own life yesterday at 22:00. A child abandoned by family, who suffered an unbearably disgusting, cruel life. In the end, their soul could no longer bear it.
And remember: do not show mercy to those who do not deserve it. Because in a world where this child was murdered, no one deserves mercy.
Farewell.
Reading this blog—even arguing with rude people like Gree—was, in its own way, a pleasure of the highest kind
I am so sorry to hear this.
You and I are on the same page and the situation you describe is a familiar one to ordinary people across the West.
Many young men die here in similar circumstances because our leaders have sold their own people down the river.
I hope time will heal some of your pain.
I also hope that you will not abandon posting on here. What is going on for ordinary people in the Russian federation is priceless and you, with your command of written English are enlightening perhaps more people than you think. Many people read, consider, process information without necessarily commenting and even people who don't care for what you say may process it later and realise the valuable insights. You are doing that by contributing and you clearly care.
I wish you well my friend.
Yea retards generally flock together. GM is in San Francisco NOT Russia.
Is that right?
I understood he and a few others on here were Russian, living in Russia.
Thanks for the information.
The great moron is detached from reality, it looks like you've gone full retard as well. Why do both of you have the same IP addy? Are you sharing her cubicle?
What the US has done to Russia will take a generation to forgive--and the countdown would only start when and if it were to mend its ways.
Russia even forgave Germany, the US did less harm, all things considering.
>Russia even forgave Germany
And what did that result in in the end?
There are problems the only solution to which is "kill it with fire"
which is why the jew sticks to its big lie....
Yeah, once I see Trump cutoff US ISR (which is 90 percent of Ukrainian reconnaissance), and once Trump doesn't allow Europe to buy American weapons and send them to Ukraine, or Starlink gets cutoff, then I'll believe it.
I must have told you before: yes, terrible things happen to people being bombed by Ukraine's attack on Russian's pre 2022 territories, but add up the number of casualties and I think you won't come up with a 1000 people. You want to risk a global war to somehow revenge these unfortunate people? Think again. The number of casualties will be off the scale!
The exact official count the other day was 652 dead and ~3,000 wounded, but that does not include the Kursk invasion, where several thousand were slaughtered directly, not by bombing, and have not been counted yet
The issue here is not just those dead though, it is also the 100,000 dead soldiers, the 200-300,000 soldiers that have lost limbs, and the 5-6x that many on the Ukrainian side, most of whom are ethnic Russians too, plus the physical destruction.
In the previous thread I asked the hypothetical question, let’s repeat it here, slightly modified.
When the US dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, it killed ~140,000 and ~70,000, respectively, plus, of course, destroying the cities.
Comparable to, or even quite a bit less damage than what has happened so far (again, a lot of the dead Ukrainians are ethnic Russians).
Now let's say NATO sends nuclear missiles at a couple Russian cities with population 100,000 each and wipes them out. What happens next? We have these questions to answer:
1) Would Moscow launch the nukes in response?
2) What would happen if it doesn't?
3) Why is inflicting the same damage conventionally permissible given the answers to 1) and 2)?
russia is doing honorable war. compare that to the jew in gaza....
There is nothing honorable about slaughtering the working class to ensure oligarch safety and maximize oligarch wealth.
"Remember that Britain has good intelligence about the real situation and they would not be doing and saying these things simply on a whim. So far the consistent pattern has been that every escalation has been first publicly declared by the West, then actually carried out, and in the end the Kremlin has done nothing in response.
Which indicates that all such decisions are made with very careful consideration of the possible consequences and good knowledge of the real conditions."
I understand the critique you are making of the Kremlin. However, I'm not sure you're grasping the desperate situation the UK and Europe are in. They face losing the system they have built over centuries and the layers of power and entitlement they have built up through their States: they bet all their hands on the US to protect and consolidate that wealth and power and it is collapsing around them.
With your knowledge, I would suggest you think about the last days of the Soviet Union; how bureaucracies and state media kept control and bullshitting everyone when it was already fucked. That is arguably the West now. Their system is collapsing.
Perhaps Putin knows this and it may be that in fact it is the Kremlin's restraint: "Which indicates that all such decisions are made with very careful consideration of the possible consequences and good knowledge of the real conditions."
The USSR in the late 1980s is a very bad comparison.
It was objectively losing ground and internally destabilizing -- two of its own republics went to war with each other already in 1988, with Moscow totally impotent to do anything about it, the Baltics declared independence in 1990, etc.
Meanwhile the West has been on a clear winning and internal consolidation streak -- Sweden and Finland were officially absorbed into NATO, Syria was destroyed, Russia has firmly lost most of its near abroad (Armenia is now de facto a NATO ally, the Central Asian republics have drifted away, etc.), everyone in Europe except for Hungary diligently lined up and started sending weapons to the AFU, including even Serbia, and not just in Europe -- India did it too. India...
There are levels to this. Is the West in a bad shape compared to China? Sure. Is it in a much improved position relative to Russia? You bet.
It is the Chinese threat that is causing DC to force the vassals in Europe to be the cannon fodder in the war against Russia, while the US focuses on China. But that in no way means Russia is in a winning position currently.
Based on what is publicly known, this is not because of real military weakness, but because of internal dysfunction preventing the proper application of Russian hard power.
But it is entirely possible that the real military balance of powers is also not in Russia's favor, we just don't know about it.
And the long-term trend is again negative -- the Russian elite spent trillions on megayachts, mansions and private jets while not investing in the Russian space sector, the result of which is that the US will likely have the upper hand militarily again in the not too distant future, when the decisive strategic factor becomes space-based weapons.
I appreciate what you write but you are badly missing my points and the comparison is not a very bad one.
My understanding is you live in Russia and when it was the Soviet Union: I get a lot from reading your perspectives on your government.
However, you do not live here and did not live through the 1980s when Western decline and deindustrialisation began along with the selling off of nations and cultures to globalism and finance. The points you make above are shallow because I am talking about the insidious disintegration of societies over time and the methods used by power to add bureaucracies and bullshit covering this theft and collapse. You are clearly not aware of what a state the West is in and how broken large constituencies of people here are. Thanks for your reply.
As usual an informed and well thought out response. It is refreshing to read a balanced and realistic report on vital issues such as this.